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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



May 6, 1909. 



THE FLORISTS' REVffiW 



G. L. GRANT, Editor and Manaoeb. 



PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY 



THE FLORISTS' PUBLISHING CO. 



530-560 Caxton Bulldins, 



334 Dearborn Street, Chicago. 



Telephone, Harrison 5429. 



rbgistbrbd cablb addrbss, florvibw, chicago 



New York Office: 



Borough Park Brooklyn, N. Y. 



J. Austin Shaw, Manager. 



Subscription $1.00 a year. To Canada, $2.00. 

 To EuropCj $2.50. Subscriptions accepted only 

 from those in the trade. 



Advertising rates quoted upon request. Only 

 strictly trade advertising accepted. 



Advertisements must reach us by Wednesday 

 morning to insure insertion in the issue of the 

 fojlowiug day, and earlier will be better. 



Entered as second class matter December 3. 

 1897, at the post-oflice at Chicago, 111., under the 

 act of March 3, 1879. 



This paper Is a member of the Chicago Trade 

 Press Association. 



^ SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLOBISTS. 



Incoepoeated by Act of Congeess Maech 4, '01 



Officers for 1909: President, J. A. Valentine, 

 Denver, Colo. ; vice-president, E. G. Glllett, 

 Cincinnati, O. ; secretary, Willis N. Kudd, Mor- 

 gan Park, 111. ; treasurer, H. B. Beatty, Pitts- 

 burg. 



Annual convention, Cincinnati, O., August 17 

 to 20, 1909. 



INDEX TO ADVEETISERS, PAGE 86. 



CONTENTS. 



The Retail Florist— The Ivy Cross (llliis.).. ."> 



— .-Vtitoniobiles for Delivery •"> 



— Charges for Boarders ."> 



— .\ \ew Seattle Store (illus.) li 



— I'lcture Post Cards 



— Steamer Flowers (illus. i (i 



— Before and After (111ns.) 7 



Peony .lules File 7 



Cluys-antheniums — .Mums for I'ot Culture.... H 



— .Mums in I.ettu<'e Soil 8 



— Chrysauthenniin Society X 



Uoses — Rose Tausendschon (illus.) 8 



— The Problems of Hose (irowers !t 



((utduor Valley 10 



Barnes' l{o.\ (Illus.) 10 



Seasonable .Suggestions — Asters 10 



— Fuchsias 10 



— Bays and Boxes 11 



— Poinsettlas 11 



— Begonia Incarnata 11 



— Pentstemons 11 



— Hydrangeas 12 



Hydrangeas for Easter 12 



Carnations — Cause of Split Calyxes 12 



— ■ PoUand's Carnations 12 



(iardeuing Contests (illus.) 13 



Berlin International Show 14 



Insuffleiont Water Supply 14 



Obituary 14 



.V Florida Fernery IB 



(Chicago Hi 



Omaha 20 



New York 20 



Louisville. Ky 24 



IMilladelphia 20 



Some Popular Perennials 27 



To Clear Out Bed Spider 32 



Propagating Boxwood 32 



Detroit 34 



I'rovldencc, II. 1 34 



Baltimore 35 



.Seed Trade News — Imparts 38 



— Imports of Seeds 39 



— Crawford Sells Out 40 



— A Bit of Trade History 40 



— Paris Green Is Cheap 40 



— North Dakota Seed Law 41 



— • Watermelon .Seed 42 



— • Notes from Kugland 42 



— Hellanti 42 



Boston 43 



Washington 44 



Vegetable Forcing — .Manure Gnats 40 



Calceolaria for Easter 40 



Nurser.v News — Imports r>f Nursery sfock.. 52 



— Early Flowering Shrubs 52 



— Pruning Seedling Trees 52 



— Hedge for Country Home 53 



Antirrhinums for Christmas 5:1 



Pacltic Coast — Budding Holly Trees 54 



— San Francisco 55 



Cleveland 56 



St. Paul ->H 



Pittsburg 60 



Milwaukee ((2 



.Minneapolis 64 



(Jreenhouse Heating 76 



In Michigan 76 



St. Louis 77 



.\e w Orleans 78 



Dayton, Ohio 80 



I.exlngton. Ky 82 



.New Bedford, Mass 84 



RESULTS. 



We give them. You get them. 



We both have them. 



OuK visiting friends, the Holland nur- 

 serymen, these days wear ' ' the smile that 

 won 't come off. ' ' Long live the queen 

 and the princess! 



Not a few subscribers save themselves 

 the bother of annual renewal by sending 

 the Revikw $2, $3, or occasionally $5, in- 

 stead of the dollar bill that insures fifty- 

 two visits of the paper. 



The English liorticultural chemists 

 have devised a number of insecticides, 

 which, spread upon and watered or 

 spaded into the soil, are said to be deadly 

 so far as all pests in the soil are con- 

 cerned. 



MOTHERS' DAY. 



Miss Anna Jarvis, the mother of 

 Mothers ' day, writes the Review : "I 

 trust this Mothers' day, when flowers are 

 needed for Shut-ins to almost the full 

 extent of the supply, that prices will not 

 be raised so that for future celebra- 

 tions some other badge will be necessary 

 for this day. ' ' 



The Eeview does not believe in put- 

 ting prices, of anything, at any time, 

 above the point where people will buy, 

 and buy freely. Don't kill the goose 

 that lays the golden egg. 



MORE THAN WERE NEEDED. 



There are many factors which may in- 

 fluence an atlvertiser pa/t of the time, 

 but it is actual results which influence 

 him most of the time. 



The advertisement did the work — more orders 

 than we could Ull. — H. O. Hannah & Son, Sher- 

 man, Tex., April 30, 1909. 



The tritonias advertised are all sold and many 

 orders had to be turned down. They came all 

 the way from Massachusetts to Salt Lake City 

 and Texas. — C. S. Kldgway, Lumberton, N. J., 

 .May 3, 1909. 



SALES IN DEPARTMENT STORES. 



A department store here has been hav- 

 ing salts of plants at various times, of- 

 fering two-year-old nursery-grown ( ?) 

 roses at 10 cents, and plumosus and Bos- 

 tons out of 3-inch pots at 10 cents each. 

 What is it advisable to do under such 

 circumstances? The plants look to me 

 like bench rose plants, and although we 

 do not sell many of these, still 1 do not 

 like to see them selling asparagus, etc. 



Someone who has had this experience 

 will confer a favor by suggesting what 

 to do in a case of this kind. It seems 

 to me that the wholesalers who sell to 

 department stores are not doing the 

 square thing by the retailers, who are 

 their main support. 



J. H. Cain. 



GENERAL BUSINESS. 



in the weekly reports of the mercantile 

 agencies for the last seven days of April 

 there again was to be found evidence of 

 the widespread revival in general trade, 

 this being reflected most clearly in the 

 increase of about thirty-two per cent in 

 bank clearings in all leading cities during 

 the week. For April the clearings ex- 

 ceeded those of last year by nearly forty 

 per cent. 



An increased wave of prosperity i.s 

 sweeping over the United States, accord- 

 ing to that usually accurate barometer 

 of prosperous conditions — the gross pos- 

 tal receipts. The receipts at fifty of 

 the largest cities for the month of March 

 show an increase over the same month 

 last year of $1,178,921, or 14.50 per cent. 



the normal rate of increase being about 

 five per cent. Similar statements show 

 increases for January last of 6.09 per 

 cent and for February of 4.73 per cent 

 over the same months of last year. 



AMERICAN CARNATION SOCIETY. 



Baur & Smith, Indianapolis, Ind., reg- 

 ister Carnation Shasta. Parentage, pink 

 seedling crossed Enchantress; color, pure 

 glistening white at all times; bloom well 

 formed and three to three and a half 

 inches in size; extra free and early in 

 blooming and does not crop ; does not 

 split its calyx. A. F. J. Baue, Sec'y. 



A FLORIDA FERNERY. 



On the Atlantic coast line, 140 miles 

 south of Jacksonville, situated on Lake 

 Griffin, is Lake Shore Fernery, owned 

 and operated by Col. Thomas Windram 

 and C. E. Hawkins, who have dug and 

 chopped out of the virgin forest a five- 

 acre tract and planted it in plumosus and 

 Sprengeri. The farm consists of fifteen 

 acres bordering on Lake Griffin, and the 

 soil is white sand underlaid with clay. 

 It is two feet above the lake and makes 

 an ideal spot for the growing of this 

 stock. 



Cypress posts, eight feet high, are set 

 8x16 feet apart and covered over with 

 1x3 cypress slats for shading. The Skin- 

 ner system of irrigation is used. A 

 large gasoline engine and pump force 

 the water from the lake. Commercial 

 fertilizer is spread between the rows and 

 raked in. Leaf-mold is used for mulch. 

 The market for the product is found as 

 far north as Detroit, Mich., east to New 

 York and west to St. Louis. 



The writer spent two days with the 

 manager, Mr. Hawkins, at his home on 

 the farm, and feels impelled to express 

 his admiration for the grit and "staying 

 qualities of the man who has dug and 

 chopped his way in this dense hummock 

 land, risking his life, which may be 

 snapped out any minute by the poison- 

 ous rattler or the deadly moccasin, both 

 of Avhich infest these lands. The gnats 

 and red bugs by day and mosquitoes by 

 night also help to make life miserable, 

 especially to a northerner. 



Wm. Murphy. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



Last week was one of the most pecu- 

 liar this market ever has experienced. 

 Stock accumulated heavily the first part 

 of the week, so that by Wednesday, 

 April 28, a condition of serious glut 

 obtained. But the week was one of un- 

 seasonable cold, dark skies, heavy storms 

 and snow, with the result that the latter 

 part of the week receipts were curtailed 

 to a remarkable extent. The weather, 

 however, shut off demand in almost the 

 same proportion it did the supply of 

 stock, with the result that prices for days 

 did not advance, although the market 

 was in a condition which would have pro- 

 duced a decided jump with a normal de- 

 mand. 



After stagnating for three days, busi- 

 ness began late on Saturday and prices 

 started up. All values advanced, but 

 carnations more than any other flowers. 

 This week opened with supplies still 

 light and prices decidedly better than 

 they were a week ago. Demand is only 

 fair, and it is extremely doubtful what 

 the immediate future of the market will 

 be. 



Roses have felt the stimulus, but there 



